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Knots Landing

“Love thy neighbor.”

6.9(47 votes)

1979–1993

14 Seasons • 344 Ep

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Series Storyline

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

Seasons (15)

Specials

3 Episodes • 2005

Season 1

13 Episodes • 1979

In a seaside suburban paradise, four married couples struggle with the conflicts and passions that buffet every marriage.

Season 2

18 Episodes • 1980

Adultery, rape and white-collar crime plague the families of seaside Knots Landing--with lethal consequences.

Season 3

22 Episodes • 1981

Passions escalate as four couples battle temptation in a seaside suburban paradise.

Season 4

22 Episodes • 1982

Lust, alcoholism and murder strike, causing further turmoil in the suburban cul-de-sac.

Season 5

25 Episodes • 1983

William Devane joins the cast as the residents of Knots landing cope with a corrupt land-development deal, adultery, unwanted pregnancy and a Central American civil war.

Season 6

30 Episodes • 1984

Alec Baldwin joins the cast. Control of the Ewing fortune rests on the fate of illegitimate twin babies--and the residents of Knots Landing resort to blackmail, kidnapping and murder.

Season 7

30 Episodes • 1985

The residents of an idyllic seaside cul-de-sac face an ongoing feud over a corrupt land development deal and the supposed suicide of one of them. Ava Gardner joins the cast.

Season 8

30 Episodes • 1986

Power struggles over politics, money and sex rock the idyllic seaside community of Knots Landing.

Season 9

29 Episodes • 1987

From the discovery of a body buried in concrete to gun-running and murder over sexual jealousy, multiple crises shatter the peace in the cul-de-sac.

Season 10

28 Episodes • 1988

Financial schemes, intrigue, murder and lust culminate in the possible expulsion from the cul-de-sac of one of the neighbors.

Season 11

29 Episodes • 1989

Love and new relationships interweave with insidious plots, adultery and death as a serial murderer insinuates himself among the residents of the cul-de-sac.

Season 12

27 Episodes • 1990

As two residents of the cul-de-sac confront mortality, the others living in Knots Landing continue to plot and scheme--and face surprising reversals of fortune.